Slumming (Record no. 62191)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780691128009
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd.
Distributor address : A-184, A, Nand Gram, Ghaziabad,U.P.
Bill Number : 870
Bill Date : 5/8/2024
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 306.7086 KOV
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Koven, Seth.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Slumming
Remainder of title : Sexual & Social Politics in Victorian London .
Statement of responsibility, etc / Seth Koven.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Princeton University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc ,2004.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvii, 399p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 2731
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc In the 1880s, fashionable Londoners left their elegant homes and clubs in Mayfair and Belgravia and crowded into omnibuses bound for midnight tours of the slums of East London. A new word burst into popular usage to describe these descents into the precincts of poverty to see how the poor lived: slumming. In this captivating book, Seth Koven paints a vivid portrait of the practitioners of slumming and their world: who they were, why they went, what they claimed to have found, how it changed them, and how slumming, in turn, powerfully shaped both Victorian and twentieth-century understandings of poverty and social welfare, gender relations, and sexuality.<br/><br/><br/>The slums of late-Victorian London became synonymous with all that was wrong with industrial capitalist society. But for philanthropic men and women eager to free themselves from the starched conventions of bourgeois respectability and domesticity, slums were also places of personal liberation and experimentation. Slumming allowed them to act on their irresistible "attraction of repulsion" for the poor and permitted them, with society's approval, to get dirty and express their own "dirty" desires for intimacy with slum dwellers and, sometimes, with one another.<br/><br/><br/>Slumming elucidates the histories of a wide range of preoccupations about poverty and urban life, altruism and sexuality that remain central in Anglo-American culture, including the ethics of undercover investigative reporting, the connections between cross-class sympathy and same-sex desire, and the intermingling of the wish to rescue the poor with the impulse to eroticize and sexually exploit them.<br/><br/><br/>By revealing the extent to which politics and erotics, social and sexual categories overflowed their boundaries and transformed one another, Koven recaptures the ethical dilemmas that men and women confronted--and continue to confront--in trying to "love thy neighbor as thyself."
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social Politics
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sexual & Social
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social Science
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Seth Koven
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 07/08/2024 Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd. 2731.00   306.7086 KOV 30307 07/08/2024 07/08/2024 Books
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